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Upcoming Appearances


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Past Appearances

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Event: MLOps Community Meetup - Chicago

Topic: Generating “Smart” Geofences with Clustering Techniques
Location: Chicago Loop, Toast offices
Date: November 10, 2022
Links: https://mlops.community

Event: VisInPractice @ IEEE VIS 2021

Topic: Virtual Panel on Visualization Tool Ecosystems
Location: Virtual
Date: October 25, 2021
Links: http://ieeevis.org/year/2021/info/visinpractice
http://ieeevis.org/year/2021/welcome


Podcast: Beautiful Bastards Podcast

Topic: Data Science/Machine Learning misc
Location: Virtual
Date: October 4, 2021
Links: beautifulbastardspodcast.com


Event: Center for Deep Learning Spring 2021 Seminar, Northwestern University

Topic: Accelerating Deep Learning with Dask and GPUs
Location: Virtual
Date: April 27, 2021
Links: https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research/deep-learning//
https://github.com/skirmer/gpu_pytorch/tree/main/center-deep-learning



Event: ODSC East 2021

Topic: Going Beyond Matplotlib and Seaborn: A survey of Python data visualization tools
Location: Virtual
Date: March 29 - April 1 2021
Links: https://odsc.com/boston/
https://github.com/skirmer/new-py-dataviz


Event: R Ladies Chicago - Workshop

Topic: Functions for R Programming Beginners
Location: Virtual
Date: February 26, 2021
Links:
https://rladieschicago.org/
https://github.com/skirmer/functions_r
Video: https://youtu.be/TCIMT6l53tQ



Event: Outlier Data Visualization Conference 2021

Topic: Going Beyond Matplotlib and Seaborn: A survey of Python data visualization tools
Location: Virtual
Date: February 7, 2021
Links: https://www.outlierconf.com/
https://github.com/skirmer/new-py-dataviz


Event: RE*WORK’s Deep Learning Virtual Summit, January 2021

Topic: Scaling Up PyTorch with GPU Cluster Computing
Location: Virtual
Date: January 28-29, 2021
Links: https://www.re-work.co/events/deep-learning-virtual-summit-2021/schedule
https://github.com/skirmer/gpu_pytorch



Event: R Ladies Dallas, December 2020

Topic: Branching Out into Isolation Forests: Tree Based Anomaly Detection
Location: Virtual
Date: December 7, 2020
Links: https://www.meetup.com/rladies-dallas/events/274004809/
https://github.com/skirmer/isolation_forests
Video to come


Event: ChiPy Data SIG October 2020

Topic: Branching Out into Isolation Forests: Tree Based Anomaly Detection
Location: Virtual
Date: October 21, 2020
Video
Links: https://www.chipy.org/
https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/272525624/



Event: ODSC Europe Virtual Conference 2020

Topic: Making Happy Modelers: Build and Maintain Your Data Warehouse with AWS Redshift and Airflow
Location: Virtual
Date: September 17-19, 2020
Links: https://odsc.com/speakers/making-happy-modelers-build-and-maintain-your-data-warehouse-with-aws-redshift-and-airflow/


Event: RE*WORK’s Virtual Applied AI Summit - Spring 2020

Topic: Moderator, Panel: Strategies for Effectively Building, Deploying, and Monitoring AI
Location: Virtual/London, UK
Date: May 21, 2020
Links: https://www.re-work.co/events/applied-ai-virtual-summit



Event: Women in Data Science Chicago 2020

Topic: Better Data Science Team Collaboration with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: March 6, 2020
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab https://widschicago.org/


Event: DC R Conference

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Washington, DC
Date: November 8, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz
https://dc.rstats.ai/2019/dcr/



Event: ODSC West

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python - Interactive Workshop
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: November 1, 2019
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics


Event: R-Ladies Chicago and Chicago Data Visualization Community Joint Meetup

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: July 24, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz



Event: REV 2

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python
Location: New York, NY
Date: May 23, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics
Listen to my conversation with Eric Kavanagh on Inside Analytics podcast


Event: satRday Chicago

Topic: Keynote: What Data Science Can Learn From Sociology
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 27, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/satRdays_chicago_2019



Event: R Package Building Workshop

Topic: 1 day seminar for women and nonbinary folks
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: February 23, 2019
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/r_packages


Event: EARL Roadshow Seattle 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: November 7, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab



Event: ODSC East 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Boston, MA
Date: May 3, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Event: Metis Speaker Series

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab





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